I made up a club to help further my views. My club is open to anyone, and the only rules are that majority...
I made up a club to help further my views. My club is open to anyone, and the only rules are that majority rules. My club does stuff, like endorse policies and candidates for office.
So there's 80 of us, and 20 of them are unhappy with the policies and candidates we endorse, so they get 20 of their friends to join our club and push for a change in direction. The other 60 of us, well, we are split between a couple of different directions (35 one way, 25 another) ... but we all agree we don't want the change that these 40 other people want.
They are telling us that because they have 40 people -- more than the other two groups, at 35 and 25 -- they should get to tell the rest of us what to do. We are perfectly willing to let them have their way, if they get a majority. But they don't.
They tell us the process is "rigged" just because they can't have their way, even if they don't have a majority.
We think they are being dishonest and stupid.
So there's 80 of us, and 20 of them are unhappy with the policies and candidates we endorse, so they get 20 of their friends to join our club and push for a change in direction. The other 60 of us, well, we are split between a couple of different directions (35 one way, 25 another) ... but we all agree we don't want the change that these 40 other people want.
They are telling us that because they have 40 people -- more than the other two groups, at 35 and 25 -- they should get to tell the rest of us what to do. We are perfectly willing to let them have their way, if they get a majority. But they don't.
They tell us the process is "rigged" just because they can't have their way, even if they don't have a majority.
We think they are being dishonest and stupid.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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